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RE: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE


--- Robert Collins <robert.collins@syncretize.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2002 10:24 AM
> 
> > > I mind. Setup should become -more- data driven not less. 
> > > 
> > 
> > Excuse me?  All I was suggesting is to reword the final setup 
> > screen to
> > something like the following:
> > 
> > -Create Icon on Desktop for Cygwin Command Prompt
> > -Create Icon on Desktop for Cygwin/XFree86
> > -Add Icon to Start Menu for Cygwin Command Prompt
> > -Add Icon to Start Menu for Cygwin/XFree86
> > 
> > Then have setup create the shortcuts in the same fasion it 
> > does already. 
> > Eventually, I'd like to have it gray-out the check boxes for
> > Cygwin/XFree86 if it is not already installed.  How is this not data
> > driven?  Isn't this what the setup program is for?  The last time I
> > checked, most Windows installers handled the shortcut creation.
> 
> If you need to recompile setup.exe to change it's behaviour, it is not
> data driven. Most windows installers are driven by an data that drives
> the dialogs. 
> 
> The 'right' way to do it, is something like the menu's that dpkg uses,
> they are pure data, and can be interpreted and shown as gui interfaces,
> or as text menus, or set via the command line.
> 
> So, here are some options:
> 1) Implement an interpreter for dpkg's configure menus in setup.
> 2) Create something new along similar lines.
> 3) Use a slang interface or something like that in the postinstall
> script (*).
> 

Robert,

I'll have none of this debian talk.  You know full well that I am working
very hard to get rpm-4.1 ready for inclusion into the distribution.  At
that point, Chuck and I will start figuring out ways to interface it with
setup.  Also, we will be figuring out how to best transition setup to use
rpms.  The point of this is that all this talk is a long way off.  I'm not
going to invent a new interface when others already exist.  The fact of
the matter is, that for right now, setup is well suited to perform the
task at hand, which is to support all of the future X users.  Like it or
not, there is enough of them to warrant a separate mailing list.  Lets
temporarily let setup do this now and then we'll replace it when something
better comes along.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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